All Quotes

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.
‐‐ Luke Harding

I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?'
‐‐ Monica Potter

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.
‐‐ Angie Harmon

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, 'Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.' I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
‐‐ Calamity Jane

I left Motown because of the regime of people who were there.
‐‐ Smokey Robinson

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
‐‐ Joan Jett

I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through.
‐‐ John Gurdon

I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.
‐‐ Jane Green

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
‐‐ Karen Thompson Walker

I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
‐‐ Kate Jackson

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.
‐‐ Sarah Ferguson

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.
‐‐ Demian Bichir

I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.
‐‐ Harry Mathews

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
‐‐ Grace Slick

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.
‐‐ Robert Kagan

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
‐‐ Robin Williams

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
‐‐ Malcolm Mclaren

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.
‐‐ Peter Mayle

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
‐‐ George Michael

I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
‐‐ Christopher Fowler

I left school on my 15th birthday.
‐‐ David Bailey

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.
‐‐ Celia Imrie

I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.
‐‐ Sean Bean

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
‐‐ Jamie Oliver

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
‐‐ Dexter Fletcher

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
‐‐ Maya Lin

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
‐‐ Sean Connery

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
‐‐ Barkhad Abdi

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
‐‐ Jim Webb

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
‐‐ Arlo Guthrie

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.
‐‐ Aidan Turner

I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.
‐‐ Howard Stringer

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

I left the Pumpkins in 2010, and I just took a year off to hang with my family and be with my daughter and my son and my wife, and just get acclimatised to being off the road. Then I started looking at what was going to be the next part of my career/legacy, whatever you want to call it.
‐‐ Jimmy Chamberlin

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri

I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto